628 LXV. CUCUBBITACEJ;. (C.B.Clarke.) \_Corallocarpus. 



very small, monoecious ; males in a small corymb at the apex of a long peduncle ; 

 females short-pedicelled or subsessile, solitary or clustered. MALE : calyx-tube 

 campanulate, lobes 5, short ; corolla 5-partite ; stamens 3, nearly sessile at the 

 mouth of the calyx-tube, anthers free, all 2-celled or one 1-celled ; cells 

 straight, oblong, lateral on the thin connective which is not produced ; ovary 

 rudimentary. FEMALE : calyx and corolla as in the male ; ovary ovoid ; disc ; 

 stigmas 3 or 2; ovules not very many, horizontal; placentas 3-2, vertical. Berry 

 ovoid, circumsciss near the base, usually rostrate. Seeds not very many, ellip- 

 soid or nearly globose, somewhat compressed, smooth or nearly so, little mar- 

 gined. DISTRIB. Species 6, in Tropical Africa, the Persian Gulf, and Western 

 India. 



1. C. epig-aea, Hook. f. in Gen. PL i. 831 ; leaves punctate or scabrid 

 with minute hairs, fruit ellipsoid or ovoid suddenly contracted into the beak 

 distinctly pedicelled, seeds ellipsoid slightly margined. ^Echmandra epigsea, 

 Am. in Hook. Journ. Sot. iii. 274 ; Wight Ic. t. 503 ; Dah. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 

 100. Bryonia epigaea, Rottler Willd. Sp. PL iv. 619; Wall. Cat. 6709; 

 W. $ A. Prodr. 346. B. gkbra, Roxl. Hort Beng. 104, FL 2nd. iii. 725. 

 B. sinuata, Wall. Cat. 6711'D. 



PUNJAB, Rawul Pindee ; J, E. T. Aitcheson. SCINDE and GUJERAT ; Dalzell. 

 DECCAN PENINSULA ; Bottler ; Wight. Belgaum ; Ritchie. CEYLON ; Thwaites. 



Leaves 2 in. diam., nearly entire 3-5-angular or 3-5-lobed ; lobes usually broad 

 sometimes narrow, commonly roundish or sinuous on the margin ; petiole 1 in. Male 

 peduncle 1^-2 in., female - in. or sometimes 1 in. Fruit f in., beak in. more. 

 Seeds about six, much longer than broad. 



2. C. conocarpa, Hook. f. in Gen. PL i. 831 ; leaves with minute 

 white hairs on both surfaces hardly scabrid, fruit sessile conical not suddenly 

 contracted into the beak, seeds ellipsoid not margined. ^Echmandra conocarpa, 

 Dah. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 100? C. Fenzlii, Hook.f. in Oliv. FL Trop. Afr. ii. 565. 



GUJERAT, near Malpor and Gundar ; Dalzell. Also in Stocks' collection probably 

 from Scinde. DISTKIB. Central Africa. 



Hardly differs from C. epigcea but in the points specified in the diagnosis. The 

 leaves are 5-lobed, the lobes lanceolate, acute, narrow at each end. 



3. C. velutina, Hook.f. in Gen. PL i. 831 ; leaves shortly villous on both 

 surfaces, peduncles pedicels and calyx villous, fruit ellipsoid sessile suddenly 

 narrowed into a short beak, seeds globose compressed hardly margined. ^Ech- 

 mandra velutina, Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 100. ? C. etbaicus, Hook.f. in Oliv. 

 FL Trop. Afr. ii. 567. 



SCINDE ; Dalzell. DISTRIB. Persian Gulf and Tropical Africa ? 



"Whole plant villous. Leaves 2 in. diam., subentire or more or less 3-5-lobed, 

 lobes rounded ; petiole f in. Male peduncle 3 in. with 12 flowers at the top. Male 

 and female flowers as in C. epigcea. Fruit % in. the beak | in. Seeds about 12, in. 

 diam. 



20. CERASIOCARPUDZ, Hook.f. 



Climbing glabrous herbs ; tendrils simple. Leaves long-petioled, oblong, cor- 

 date, nearly entire. Flowers very small, monoecious ; male peduncle carrying a 

 few clustered flowers at the top ; female flower sessile, solitary, often in the 

 same axil with the male. MALE : calyx-tube short campanulate with 5 minute 

 teeth ; corolla 5-partite ; stamens 3 ; anthers subsessile, distinct, one 1-celled, 

 two 2-celled ; cells oblong, lateral on the connective which is not produced ; 



